Synonyms for IMPRISONMENT
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1. imprisonment

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bondage, bonds, chains, custody, durance, duress, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, irons, manacles, shackles

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1. imprisonment

   Synonyms:
   restraint, incarceration, durance, confinement

   Antonyms:
   freedom, liberation

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, captivity, immurement, internment

2. captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurementnoun

   the state of being imprisoned

   "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, internment, captivity, immurement, imprisonment, enslavement

3. imprisonment, internmentnoun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

   Synonyms:
   internment, poundage, captivity, impounding, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration

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1. • Confinement
   • Law
   • Punishment

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, confinement, commitment, restraint, constraint, duress, durance

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, durance, immurement, duress, confinement, commitment

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1. List of paraphrases for "imprisonment":

   prison, incarceration, jail, detention, confinement, reclusion, jailing, custody, imprisoned, custodial, arrest, gaol, sentence, perpetua

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1. Sandra Babcock:

   Sandra Babcock said. Mrs. Montgomerys case presents compelling grounds for clemency, including her history as a victim of gang rape, incestand child sex trafficking, as well as her severe mental illness, she will now have the opportunity to present this evidence to the President with a request that he commute her sentence to life imprisonment.

2. Mumin Abdullahi:

   Abdiweli Mohamed, the security head of the civil aviation, and Areys Hashi, who was the funder but absent, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, areys Hashi is a member of al Shabaab who funded the operation.

3. Martin Luther King Jr.:

   I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

4. Deputy Interior Minister Roberto Campa:

   I hope that what follows allows many alternative mechanisms to imprisonment to be found, because experience shows that someone who goes to jail for something minor ends up back there after being let out - a sort of revolving door.

5. Jalila Sayed:

   He was notified of the referring of his case regarding Jaw prison and the Yemen war to the High Criminal Court for trial, the first hearing will be on 12 July 2016. Nabeel may face up to 13 years of imprisonment if convicted in that case.